Jonathan Forbes


Jonathan Forbes is an Irish actor, and successful playing member of Merrion Cricket Club, Dublin.

Early life

Forbes was born in Dublin, Ireland on 4 December 1976.

Career

Forbes trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, graduating in 2001 as a BBC Carleton Hobbs Award winner.
In 2001 he played the lead role in John Deery's debut feature Conspiracy of Silence, for which he was nominated Best Newcomer at the inaugural Irish Film and Television Awards. He made his stage debut in Trevor Nunn's production of A Streetcar Named Desire at The Lyttelton Theatre in 2002. Other theatre highlights include Michael Boyd's first season at the RSC, Cyrano de Bergerac and The Good Soldier. Television highlights include Hornblower, Foyle's War and Titanic, Blood and Steel.
In 2011, he appeared in "The National Anthem", an episode of the anthology series Black Mirror.
Since 2013, Forbes has provided the voice of the character Connor in the CGI version of the iconic British TV series Thomas and Friends.
In 2015 he starred opposite Sharon Horgan and American comedian Rob Delaney in Catastrophe, a six-part comedy series for Channel 4 which first aired in the UK on 19 January 2015. The second series of the show also aired in 2015, and the third in 2017. The fourth and final series was broadcast in 2019.

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games